It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.
Literally no charges can be made. Fuck this bullshit. Good luck getting a judge to sign off on that.
He’s appointed what, 1/4 of the currently sitting judges? It’s not gonna be difficult to find one loyal to him.
Exactly this. It’s been their plan, all along.
Judges can’t just make X charges make Z sense. They still have to justify their actions to not get sued and have it immediately reversed by a higher court, in which case it still doesn’t matter, because it still has to make legal sense.
Exactly lol, it will be FBI vs govt security detail. They ain’t apprehending shit.
They’ll stand around a bicker about who has jurisdiction and it will not be the FBI.
… state (and federal) reps don’t get a security detail unless there’s a present threat. They’re not assigned them by default at all. These folks are wholly on their own.
There is literally currently a present threat.
They are not on their own.
There isn’t, at least not one that would merit being assigned a security detail. In this context, that’s what I’m referring to as being ‘on their own’, just to be clear. Additionally a state security detail would be directed by either the general assembly or governor of texas, so they’d be a threat to these people even if they’d been assigned initially (and that’s ignoring the extremely complex issue of jurisdiction outside of the state they’re assigned in, which unless federally assigned they generally do not have and is the reason the FPS exists in the first place).
And, aside from all that, why on earth would the texas state police suddenly side with a bunch of dems? They’re notorious psychos.
Like this administration listens to judges who say things they don’t want to hear.
Gotta slow boil this stuff. Eventually he’ll get ICE to round them up.
What authority would/does the FBI have to make arrests?
“We have the authority because Trump says we do. His Word is the One True Word and all that matters.”
"Our daddy issues ‘father’,
who art in the white house,
hallowed be they name on every fucking building you can find.
Your kingdom has come,
your 3 yo will be done,
on earth as it is in your fantasies.
Give us today your daily tantrum,
and forgive us our sins, but don’t forgive the immigrants.
And lead us not into temptation,
for those trans and gay websites are truly hot.
For yours is our political loyalty so please don’t hurt me.
MAGA Allwhitemen"
Not all white men. Too many of us. But there are still many of us who vehemently don’t want to be tarted with that shit brush.
True, true. I’m just repeating their words, not declaring truth.
They’re going to try to say donations to cover their fines are bribes.
Wasn’t Texas a ‘states rights’ state? I’m sure sending armed people into other states would be an infringement of that state’s rights. You should follow the proper channels and ask that state to return those people. Remember: “No” is a complete sentence.
The “state’s rights” states have ALWAYS been “our state’s rights and not yours”: “our rights to own slaves” and “our rights to come into your state and find drag our runaway slaves back to our state”. This is literally the Fugitive Slave Act, but the “Fugitive Legislator Act”: we’re going to send our people into your state to arrest them and drag them back.
If they do this we’ll be in a whole new territory of fucked. Returning political opponents to pass a political bill to subvert the fairness of an election for the presidents agenda.
Sounds very reminiscent of Wisconsin circa 2011.
“Great, another politically toxic task thrown in my lap”
- Some field agent, every day since 2016
Is it illegal to travel, now?
